The Dickinson Trust Scholarship is administered by the Central Manchester and Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s Department of Postgraduate Medical Education on behalf of the Dickinson Trust, a charity that funds this scheme. Where study leave funding is not available, bursaries can be applied for:

To fund travel at the start and end of the placement only, and living expenses of up to £400 a month for those wishing to spend time at another centre or organisation for educational purposes, either at home or abroad, for periods of up to a year.

Consideration will also be given to fund learning opportunities where no other financial support is available. Accommodation and subsistence expenses will be funded for 2 days only up to a maximum of £100 a day.

The scheme is open to:

All CMFT employees. (For consultants, please see below.)

Newly appointed CMFT consultants within 2 years from taking up their first substantive consultant post and who might benefit from short periods of study elsewhere.

Graduates who have received their clinical training as students at one of the Teaching Hospitals of the University of Manchester (CMFT, South Manchester, Salford or Preston). This includes healthcare graduates outside medicine and nursing.

Those who hold a post-graduate training post at any level up to and including registrar, in one of the University of Manchester Teaching Hospitals.

Previous awards have successfully supported the following attachments and courses:

Postgraduate Diploma in Paediatric Infectious Diseases

Specialty Registrar in Paediatrics

Visit to Istanbul Faculty of Medicine to gain experience of the complications of Behcet’s syndrome and to use the experience to promote the regional Behcet’s service.

Consultant Rheumatologist

Research/clinical training fellowship at the University of Toronto Head & Neck Surgical Oncology Fellowship Program.

Specialist Registrar

THE CLOSING DATE FOR RECEIPT OF APPLICATIONS IS FRIDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2015

PLEASE NOTE THAT EVENTS FOR WHICH FUNDING IS BEING APPLIED FOR MUST TAKE PLACE AFTER THE NEXT MEETING OF THE DICKINSON TRUSTEES ON MONDAY 19 OCTOBER 2015. RETROSPECTIVE APPLICATIONS ARE NOT ACCEPTED